Employees of the two companies united in our mission of “energy for people.” When I retired four years later, Encana was our country’s largest energy company and also the largest of all Canadian companies by stock market value. My dream of building a Canada-headquartered energy company, invulnerable to takeover, had become a reality.
I could never have imagined that, a dozen years later, the company would decide to export itself.
Related: Liberals’ plan to kill Alberta oil industry is working. Just faster than expected.
It appears the experiment known as Canada will soon be drawing to a close. I don’t know what Alberta is supposed to do. Either everyone has to move to Quebec and learn French, or Ontario and learn Deadbeat. Either way, we will all starve and freeze together. HURRAY!!!!
Yep, cant argue with you have written.
Justins hatred of Alberta is Genetic, taught & buttressed by his personal Echo Chamber: Gerald Butts. As is his inbred hatred of Christians, Euro Centric Immigrants and English Canada as a whole.
https://www.facebook.com/cdnpoli/videos/680559242068813/
His Love of Dictatorships and abject pandering to Islam and its adherents is Glaring.
Now he is about to sign the UN’s compact on Migration….Once Done, I think this country is FINISHED.
Too bad Mr. Morgan never got the memo that successful businesses are bad, oil businesses even worse, and all capitalists are evil.
Social Justice is where it’s at, man. If you were woke you’d know that.
I’m waiting for socialists to take over and then launch a “cultural revolution”
University professors – start to think of picking strawberries in fields. Agricultural work will be your future.
Tech billionaires – you will loose your money, your houses, your cars. Your new jobs will be janitorial.
Rich socialists – buy a broom now, you will enjoy your new job sweeping streets.
Think about the effect of the damaged western Canada energy sector on Canada’s overall economy. Given the wreckage the provincial Liberal governments have done to the central Canadian and Maritime economies, Western Canada had been the only evonomic growth pole for the nation. Now Justin Trudeau has eliminated that. — David Murrell, Economics, UNB at Fredericton
The Maritimes have now been reduced to living off government handouts and boondoggles (e. g., AECL’s heavy water plant in Port Hawkesbury) , thanks, largely due to Liberal policies for at least the last 50 years. But which region of Canada also unanimously voted Liberal the last election?
A prosperous western Canada is anathema to Liberal Ottawa. It has been Liberal policy ever since PET became PM to destroy western Canada’s economy (“Why should I sell your wheat?”), break any sense of independence and self-sufficiency, and reduce us to begging like the Maritimes. Out of gratitude for its overwhelming generosity, we in the west would be expected to continuously keep voting Liberal. After all, one shouldn’t bite the hand that one is fed by.
PET only succeeded in damaging us. Prinz Dummkopf wants to finish what Daddy started, aided and abetted by Buttshead, who hates a prosperous western Canada for his own reasons.
And the depressing thought is, he will be re-elected. After another 4 years of this, Canada’s economy will be moribund, and it will be too late. Changing direction and re-building our economy to what it was would take decades, if even possible.
That was the idea all along ever since PET became PM.
So what’s wrong with a 40 cent dollar anyways? Who cares if imported food prices double, energy costs increase, and the standard of living falls off the cliff? TruDOPE can just run YUGE deficits and print tons more of funny money with no ill effects, right, right?
Haven’t you heard? Budgets balance themselves, so a deficit is unpossible.
Yeah, but look on the bright side,Dan. As we’ll all be broke,our carbon dioxide footy-print will be reduced to thatof Zaire.
It’s a damned shame we Western Canadians have had all our survival instincts civilized out of us.There will be no Western separation movement, we will continue to acquiesce to Eastern demands and continue to be third class citizens in our own country.
We need a Chairman Mao (non- communist variety), instead we have Jason Kenney.
It’s a good time to be old.
I haven’t had all my survival instincts bred out of me. I might be like those old babushkas (sp)in Chernobyl. They survive in the radioactive habitat with the wolves.
Not a pleasant thought but I know how to get it done.
That is the plan. Maurice Strong’s dream of the de-industrialization of Canada coming true in one term of a Trudeau administration.
I worked for years in the Piceance Basin in NW Colorado as a geologist. Encana and Williams were the big dogs in that gas-prone basin, which has been relegated to second tier status by the shale revolution. I enjoyed working with professionals from both companies.
It’s part of business, especially in commodities, for business cycles and changing subsurface realities to decimate companies and entire industries. It’s inexcusable when the carnage is due to idiot politicians and the Luddite masses to whom they pander .
If this means a dramatic reduction in GDP, that more than anything will put the binders on his spending habits, as it will also impact the amount of taxes that can be collected by the federal government.
Socialism doesn’t work because of this feature.
Hopefully the lenders send the message soon that the federal government doesn’t rate getting credit from anyone other than those looking to liquidate federal assets.
“Canada’s captive-market discount gives away $200 million a day as a gift to American buyers.”
That seems like a lot of $$$, thank you Canada ! That’s 61 cents/day or over $200/year – just for me !
Maybe if you pointed out how much tax revenue could be extracted from that you could get the Liberals to come up with better policies to exploit that ? No ? The greedy bastards hate Alberta more than they love money.
Apparently, along with history not taught in school anymore, math is also long gone from the curriculum. Alberta-hate is the only course taught in this country anymore.
Again, the US wins and Canada loses. The Liberals/NDP/Greens love it!
Most Canadian people are good and honest and my brethren. The Dominion of Canada is an undemocratic socialist oligarchy that needs to be destroyed and annexed into the United States. This pathetic excuse for a country cannot be allowed to exist any longer. I have spoken.
The fact that Canadians have not taken to the streets is proof enough that citizens can be ‘managed’. Capital is fleeing the country across the board not just the energy business. Consumer debt is 170% of income. Over 60% of people 55 years and older have not saved more than $50,000 for their retirement.
When John Mauldin out of Texas features Canadian debt as a rationale for shorting Canada you know this country is on the cusp of a serious setback. Unsustainable spending by consumers and their governments will ultimately cause massive inflation. Government social promises will/cannot be met. Corporate taxes are not competitive will world rivals especially the USA. Trump is effectively drawing most future North American investment to the USA. I no longer invest money in Canadian companies unless they have most of their revenue coming from abroad.
Canada is not a real country and hasn’t been since WW II. When the inevitable economic collapse happens the country will break up quickly. Accountability is a ‘progressive’ nightmare and that is coming.
“Capital is fleeing the country across the board not just the energy business”
This will be the Liberals’ rationale for nationalizing industries, and myopic voters will agree and capital flight will accelerate. Like Venezuela, Canada will continue its slide into the abyss.
Notice that the high Priests of green theocracy always put a distant deadline on their goal of the utopian moment of carbon free existence. For example, BC’s Premier Horgan announced today that BC will only allow emission-free vehicles by 2040. I say do it all now. Given that there is no alternative technical reality that would allow such a move, bring it on now, shut down all enterprise, non golf cart transportation and expose the green priests for what they are, virtue signalling poseur assholes.
Thanks for mentioning this. The GreeNDP policy is full of holes to be exploited. These jokers have no fundamental understanding of economics or the free market.
#1, no matter what quotas the GreeNDP establishes to Car dealers, “10% of cars sold will be e-cars”, they still can’t force consumers to buy these electric toys. They ignore the reasoning, that manufacturers lose money on every e-car they produce, and, most of all, the GreeNDP has no jurisdiction over the manufacturers.
#2, the GreeNDP just endorsed Alberta Car Dealers to sell ICE cars in perpetuity to BC residents.
#3, they didn’t ban ICE vehicles either, although I wouldn’t want to give them any ideas.
You can’t fix stupid with these ideological communists.
Did you happen to see Dr Evil’s wild eyed gyrations, over how his e-car “was faster than a Maserati”? The guy is a genuine fucking lunatic!
Albertans/Saskatchewanians have nobody to blame but ourselves. We should have left the “confederation” the first time a Trudeau decimated our economy. Fool me once…
Meanwhile, in Edmonton and Calgary, tens of thousands of angry citizens have brought the cities and the Province to a standstill for the third day in a row by blockading the legislature buildings and the Trans-Canada highway….
Okay, okay….just being silly.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
And still, you get that brain dead commenter in every thread; “separation is not an option”.
Any provincial government that has not already started, is on Trudeau’s side.
I seek complete INDEPENDENCE from the ROC. Separatism is an in invention of Quebec whereby they have complete control of their own government but still get Canada to pay for everything (pretty much exactly the way it is now)
If Trudeau gets re-elected soup kitchens will be the only thing growing in this nation.
Perhaps not a bad thing, for maybe that’s the only way idiot’s will learn, voting lieberal.
Saskatchewan announced the most generous mat leave benefits in the country. 60+weeks.
Still think Moe Mao is a conservative?
Red rehires the commie brian topp to advise her on what to do with the oil price differential. Who’s next zaporah berman?
The countries pooched.
Look on the bright side. The carbon tax will never go above 10%. GDP for the country will be -20%. The planet will be saved. All you poor frozen Canadians will have done your part. Time to buy some property in Mexico and change my name to Pedro.